Was the early hours of the morning here in NZ. I was still awake, watching movies on our pay tv channels (Sky tv) and I had flicked over to one of the cable news channels and I saw the first tower of the World Trade Center on "fire" with the giant "hole" on the side of the building....looked pretty surreal at that stage...maybe just a tragic accident I thought; then the second airliner struck the second tower and I just said to myself WTF is this??

...then I hurried to wake my wife up saying..."Honey wake up...they are attacking America" and that is exactly what I said at the time because it was raw and in your face(even through the tv screen) and I remember at the time I was having difficulty just processing what the hell was happening.